Pumped U Kicks Analysis

When listening to a song no one ever pauses the music and thinks about the true meaning behind it. Several songs have meanings but some of the artists produce those songs to create an awareness. “Pumped up Kicks” by Foster the People is a song the band created to raise awareness of school shootings. I have always listened to this song, but I never found out the story behind it until this year. Listening to this song now has changed my perspective on listening to music. Songs have a reason for everything, and to have an issue come out of it is a great way of listening to it.

The song’s character is just a member of the majority, even if the songwriters condemn his way of thinking. The criticism of the average citizen becomes much clearer during the second section of the song.

This song implies that individual’s are violating the norms and values of society. They start the song with a verse that expresses

Now days all the kids want to grow up too fast and when they are done with school there going to miss the days when they were young. The song also talks about like there's no dinners at grandma's house anymore because this generation has a different taste in things they like to do. The guys who sing the song want to go back to when they were kids because they know it's hard to survive out in the world because you don't have your mom to support you have to work and make your own money and pay your own bills. When i was a kid i wanted to grow up to i wanted to do things that adults can do but this song made want to not grow up because you're on your own after your done with school and hearing that they want to be kids made me think that life must be hard if they want to be kids again.

When asking all of my fellow peers to take in and read over this song, it seemed to me that the main reoccurring idea was that of the narrators’ unwillingness to just accept his thoughts, because now he no longer had those materialistic distractions of his “radio.” He now, has to deal with this newfound reality face to face. For the most part, this interpretation that everyone had constructed was in fact, somewhat correct. I will now give my own insight into this song simply through the lyrics.

I agree with the theory of “Little Boxes,” I too thought this song had a lot to do with the way American society was taught to grow up. I wonder where the “Rules” of growing up where established, like who original set forth the correct way society was to grow? Still to this day the “ticky tacky” concept of building track homes is used and depending on the culture you are brought up in, college, home, marriage, and then a family is still a traditional way of thriving. Are we living the way we want or the way our parents want us to live? Again, depending on your upbringing will determine whether you follow in your parent’s footsteps or you choose your own path. It is not uncommon today for children to choose their career and even more so when teen pregnancy on the rise, the baby doesn’t always come after

In the middle of the song he says "Come writers and critics who prophesies with your pen and keep your eyes wide the chance won´t come again and don´t speak too soon for the wheel´s still in spin". Here we found two allegories. At the beginning when he talks about the writers and critics, who at the time manipulated the news in order to make people believe everything was alright when it was not. The other one is in the last part of that fragment when it refers to the wheel that is still spinning. This an allegory from medieval philosophy capturing the unpredictability of life;The song precedes the game show “Wheel of Fortune”. It means “things are still up in the air, nothing is certain yet”. Another important allegory found in the song is the fragment "There´s the battle outside raging it´ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls." There is a battle against segregation, the civil rights movement was that battle and he wanted to tell everybody that it would affect everybody and that they should be prepared for

The song really tells us that we must take risks in life. When given the option we must dance, no matter how silly we look instead of sitting out on the opportunity. This translate to being a senior, I have many choices in my life and if I want to go far, I must take chances and have the courage to go out, to dance instead of sitting out and missing chances.

Meaning that the word love has no meaning if someone contiues to treat there partner badly. As for the intruments that are used in the song, the whole song uses a synth for all the instruments and it has a very slow melody to go with it. When it comes to how this song connects to my life, I think that most people can relate to how the word "love" is really thrown around. specifically in the lyrics " What`s love got to do, got to do with it, Who needs a heart, When a heart can be broken". I know for a fact that I have thrown around that word carlessly before in past relationships. What I like most about this song is really the lyrics, I actually had to sit down and read the lyrics over a few times to get a real understanding of what she was trying to say in this song. What I dislike the most abou this song is also the lyrics. Throughout the song It seemed to me like some of the lines of what she was saying werent really connecting together. This song gives me a very relaxed feeling and makes me feel like im on a beach somewhere in the 80s drinking crystal

It does not seem like his lyrics are targeted at one specific audience. It sounds like he is talking to himself at some times and is retelling his experiences, venting his frustrations with the world, and the chorus is his way of accepting his situation and how the world is by saying, “It’s just me against the world” and “I’ve got nothing to lose.” In the last verse, it sounds like he is talking to young people who

Most songs are trying to portray a message to other listeners through the use of lyrics and music put together, to me the song “Fast Car” written by Tracy Chapman was very successful at this. This song portrays a teenage girl whose mother ran away from her drunken father and that she left school to look after him as she felt it was her responsibility. She had a boyfriend with a fast car and saw him as an escape from her unhappy home life. Through the main character of the teenage girl, I was able to see her perspective through the lyrics and her feelings towards running away for a better life.

While watching the video the first time I paid attention to the lyrics. They were rather sad, as they touch on Van Gogh’s suicide. At first listen I didn’t really care for them because I didn’t understand the meaning behind

In the first verse of the song he asks, “Would you spit in Little Lucy’s face because she watches the movie Frozen and she wants to be a princess even though Disney employs nearly genocidal business practices?” He wants to know why we are so fixated on becoming something so unrealistic instead of focusing on what is real. We are conditioned to think or act a certain way from the moment we are conceived leading up to our death. We only see what those around us want us to see and are brainwashed into believing it is the truth. This is the message that this album is trying so hard to get across. He is showing us the truth that most people turn their heads to through his

This song reflects a dilemma between two choices where both sides have equal consequences. The song is about the progression of a relationship where they are so desperately in love with each other, but just can't seem to get along and have doubts whether it's really meant to be. The song is emotively effective because it touches on a very relatable subject of not knowing how to choose between two options and makes you think about what people will put themselves through to try and make something work that's just not going for them. It also shows the hard truth about how even though you try your best sometimes it’s still not enough sometimes.

This very slow song, so in my opinion I think it reinforces a sense of bittersweet, because even though she mentions how she wants to be remembered for the good things that she did she also mentions death and regrets in her song.